When working hard to complete urgent experiments, it’s easy to overlook the basics, whether you’re an expert or complete beginner. One basic but critical factor to consider for sensitive downstream applications, such as qPCR, is the quality of extracted RNA. Successful extraction of high-quality RNA, especially from some difficult sample types, can be a challenge…. Read article →
The weather is heating up here at QIAGEN’s US offices, and so are our NGS technologies! We’ve already come out with several advances over the past year, and more is in store for the second half of 2017 – stay tuned! This July, we held a special webinar series event showcasing a variety of aspects of NGS technology…. Read article →
Alzheimer’s disease has a devastating impact on aging individuals, causing memory loss and confusion, and progresses to include symptoms such as a loss of ability to communicate and seizures (1). As populations continue to live longer, understanding why AD happens is becoming more imperative. There’s currently no treatment to slow or prevent the disease process,… Read article →
Time marches on and technology with it, and these new advances yield new perspectives. Of particular interest to this blog is the changing technology and perspective on microRNA profiling methods. Two years ago, I wrote about the pros and cons of 3 methods commonly used for miRNA expression analysis, NGS, qPCR and microarray, and concluded… Read article →
One of the most common causes of degradation or loss of RNA during extraction is the DNase step. DNase digestion is frequently performed on a spin column. Although this can be a great way to save time on post extraction processing, it is not an efficient method for samples with large amounts of DNA (for… Read article →
Find out how epigentics and NGS are being utlized in HID today at the Investigator Forum - download agenda!… https://t.co/JTZAWQF8ui, Find out everything you need to know about the techniques behind RNA sequencing at our webinar on May 15! Register… https://t.co/3grbXcxqEB, Young Investigators from SHSU are sharing their research experience today at the Investigator Forum - don’t miss ou… https://t.co/Zg4Qf4e4rS, Attend our webinar on T-cell receptor sequencing! Discover a complete workflow from assay to data analysis:… https://t.co/ikIl9TnpLG, 
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